Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

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A roadmap with no signposts

Key staging points on the roadmap

Follow the wildflower road

A demand for more

Good week for

Bad week for

Outstanding in his field

Preserve to rest in peace

Country Mouse • Things are looking up

Town Mouse • Sleep as a solution

Oh, the agony! • Resident agony uncle Kit Hesketh-Harvey solves your dilemmas

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • December 11, 1920

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)

Wines of the week

Letter of the week

Letters to the Editor

Not much food for thought

Athena Cultural Crusader • Making money work (much) harder

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

John McEwen comments on Bathsheba at her Bath

Beautiful Britain • Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Remembering the New World • An enigmatic house on the Scottish Borders yields up unexpected connections with America and shines a light on 18th-century architectural practice, as Roger White explains

Flights of fantasy • The dodos, parrots and pelicans that grace the pages of our favourite books might seem comical, but they usually have some moral wisdom to share, believes Madeleine Silver

Girls and boys and their WOODEN TOYS • Traditional wooden toys were out and garish coloured plastic was all the rage–until we realised what it was doing to the environment (and our homes). Claire Jackson explains why proper playthings are back

Into the toybox: where to buy traditional toys

Give me one moment in time • Award-winning wildlife photographer Stephen Dalton explains his lifelong love of Nature and why, when it comes to capturing creatures on film, persistence and experimentation pay off

Making a motto • From the SAS’s formidable ‘who dares wins’ to the Duke of Buccleuch’s moving ‘I love’, no one does mottos quite like the British, reveals Eleanor Doughty

Great families and their mottos

All dried out • Already dead and lauded for being so, dried flowers are enjoying a stylish resurgence, discovers Hetty Lintell

Fiona McLaughlin's tips for drying your own

Get the hang • Hetty Lintell adorns the branches

No time for good table manners • This Christmas, the dining table isn’t the place for decorative restraint

Are you sitting softly? • Decorative cushions for a sofa update, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Our flowers of Scotland • Two substantial estates demonstrate Scotland’s sporting and environmental potential

Future proof • The latest materials and technology can create homes of outstanding beauty and comfort

Freeze frame • Helena Attlee recalls how a fresh fall of snow helped the then new owners of this famous Arts-and-Crafts garden to understand the underlying geometry of the land and so begin the property’s restoration

Horticultural black book

Grace and flavour: the best herbs to grow

Horticultural aide memoire • Keep paths...